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housework, in return for her board and clothes." "Let her wear a kep an' apron, then, an' eat wi' Marg'et." "Margaret might object," and I laughed at the probable dismay of our stalwart, rough-and-ready five-foot-tenner, should this ladyfied blonde permanently invade her domain. "Hoo lang's she gaun to st'y?" "That's more than I can tell you." When Mary had been a week in the house, it became apparent that something must be done with her. "She's bound she'll not go back to the public school, Dave, and yet she cannot read or write. Do you think we can afford to send her to boarding-school--to a convent, for instance, where she'd be well looked after, and allowances made for her backwardness?" Belle and I were out driving together. It was the first springlike evening we had had, and I was trying Jim Atwood's new mare on Maple Avenue, which had been newly block-paved. So engrossed was I in watching her paces I did not reply to my wife at once, and she continued: "You were going to get me a horse and a victoria this spring, but I'm willing to give them up to send Mary to school." "Please yourself, my dear. You would be the one to use the turnout. I'm content to borrow from my friends. Isn't she a beauty?" Belle came out of space to answer me. "Yes, just now; but she'll not be when she's old. Her features are not good at all; her forehead's too narrow, and her nose too broad. Were it not for her lovely hair and complexion, she'd have nothing to brag about but a pair of very ordinary blue eyes." "Who? The mare?" "Don't be stupid, Dave, and do attend to what I am saying. I hardly ever have a chance to speak to you, goodness knows!" "You get the editorial ear oftener and longer than anybody else." "Lend it to me now, then. Don't you think a convent would be the best place for Mary?" "Perhaps--as there are no theosophical educational institutions that we know about." "Mary isn't far enough on for theosophist yet. She'll have to come back many times before she is. The Roman Catholic Church is on her plane this incarnation." "It does seem to catch the masses, that's a fact, whereas your theosophy doesn't appear to be practicable for uneducated people nor for children." "I don't agree with you there." "Then why were you so anxious to send Watty to a church school to finish his education, and why are you on the lookout already for a boarding-school for the two girls where they will have
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